I need your in one case. I already checked the Forum by searching similar cases, or googeling the error message that I received , but I had no success to solve it.Hope someone of you can help me:

I am using Linuxmint 12 LISA Xfce. Everything worked fine for many months, but since December I am unable to launach MintUpdate correctly. Minupdate started normally and started browsing in a window. then it freezes. Afetr a while the following error message occurs:

Your problem is absolutely not the same. Your error messages are not related to packages.linuxmint.com at all, but they are about a mirror of archive.getdeb.net.Therefore you may want to have a look here and search for a different still functional mirror server of archive.getdeb.net.Good luck.

thank you for your help but unfortunately it didn't help.I connected to the danish server - then I tried again. Same problem as before. Afterwards I tried with the finland server. Tried also USA, it doesn't matter

I connected to the danish server - then I tried again. Same problem as before. Afterwards I tried with the finland server. Tried also USA, it doesn't matter

Your error messages are in German which suggests you are from a German speaking country. Anything wrong with selecting one of the 3 available German mirror servers?I have been using one for all my Mint systems, including Lisa, and it works fine, also tonight.Provided your current location is not Germany, select a mirror close to you.

Yes , there are 3 german servers. I tried all of them. And I tried to find out best server by click on "Choose best server". Problem remains. Only differerence is that it takes longer until the update window freezes, or stops counting. Normally MInupdate counts up to 104 packages. Depending on different servers it freezes on different stages (for example 86 out of 104...)

UPDATE###xserver-xorg###1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1###1:7.6+7ubuntu7###78920###xorg###This package depends on the full suite of the server and drivers for the X.Org X server. It does not provide the actual server itself.UPDATE###xserver-xorg-input-evdev###1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13.1###1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13###30494###xserver-xorg-input-evdev###This package provides the driver for input devices using evdev, the Linux kernel's event delivery mechanism. This driver allows for multiple keyboards and mice to be treated as separate input devices.

More information about X.Org can be found at: <URL:http://www.X.org>

This package is built from the X.org xf86-input-evdev driver module.UPDATE###linux-headers-generic###3.0.0.29.33###3.0.0.12.14###2470###linux-meta###This package will always depend on the latest generic kernel headers available.UPDATE###xserver-xorg-video-all###1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1###1:7.6+7ubuntu7###5126###xorg###This package depends on the full suite of output drivers for the X.Org X server (Xorg). It does not provide any drivers itself, and may be removed if you wish to only have certain drivers installed.UPDATE###libdbus-1-3###1.4.14-1ubuntu1.3###1.4.14-1ubuntu1###147198###dbus###D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the system quite simple.

It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.

The daemon can be found in the dbus package.UPDATE###linux-image-generic###3.0.0.29.33###3.0.0.12.14###2474###linux-meta###This package will always depend on the latest generic kernel image available.UPDATE###xserver-xorg-video-openchrome###1:0.2.904+svn920-1ubuntu0.2###1:0.2.904+svn920-1###179760###xserver-xorg-video-openchrome###OpenChrome is a project for the development of free and open-source drivers for the VIA UniChrome video chipsets.

Originally called the 'snapshot' release, since it was a snapshot of an experimental branch of the unichrome cvs code, this is a continued development of the open source unichrome driver (from http://unichrome.sf.net) which also incorporates support for the unichrome-pro chipsets.

Support for hardware acceleration (XvMC) for all chipsets has subsequently been ripped out of the unichrome.sf.net driver. Therefore your only option if you wish to make use of the acceleration features of your VIA chip with free and open-source drivers is to use this version of the driver.UPDATE###xserver-xorg-core###2:1.10.4-1ubuntu4.3###2:1.10.4-1ubuntu4###1667646###xorg-server###The Xorg X server is an X server for several architectures and operating systems, which is derived from the XFree86 4.x series of X servers.

The Xorg server supports most modern graphics hardware from most vendors, and supersedes all XFree86 X servers.

More information about X.Org can be found at: <URL:http://www.X.org>

This package is built from the X.org xserver module.UPDATE###dbus###1.4.14-1ubuntu1.3###1.4.14-1ubuntu1###554376###dbus###D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the system quite simple.

It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.

This package contains the D-Bus daemon and related utilities.

The client-side library can be found in the libdbus-1-3 package, as it is no longer contained in this package.UPDATE###xserver-xorg-input-all###1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1###1:7.6+7ubuntu7###5038###xorg###This package depends on the full suite of input drivers for the X.Org X server (Xorg). It does not provide any drivers itself, and may be removed if you wish to only have certain drivers installed.UPDATE###xorg###1:7.6+7ubuntu7.1###1:7.6+7ubuntu7###2706###xorg###This metapackage provides the components for a standalone workstation running the X Window System. It provides the X libraries, an X server, a set of fonts, and a group of basic X clients and utilities.

Higher level metapackages, such as those for desktop environments, can depend on this package and simplify their dependencies.

It should be noted that a package providing x-window-manager should also be installed to ensure a comfortable X experience.UPDATE###dbus-x11###1.4.14-1ubuntu1.3###1.4.14-1ubuntu1###32432###dbus###D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

This package contains the dbus-launch utility which is necessary for packages using a D-Bus session bus.

See the dbus description for more information about D-Bus in general.UPDATE###xserver-xorg-input-synaptics###1.4.1-1ubuntu2.1###1.4.1-1ubuntu2###67666###xserver-xorg-input-synaptics###This package provides an input driver for the X.Org X server to enable advanced features of the Synaptics Touchpad including:

* Movement with adjustable, non-linear acceleration and speed* Button events through short touching of the touchpad* Double-Button events through double short touching of the touchpad* Dragging through short touching and holding down the finger on the touchpad* Middle and right button events on the upper and lower corner of the touchpad* Vertical scrolling (button four and five events) through moving the finger on the right side of the touchpad* The up/down button sends button four/five events* Horizontal scrolling (button six and seven events) through moving the finger on the lower side of the touchpad* The multi-buttons send button four/five events, and six/seven events for horizontal scrolling* Adjustable finger detection* Multifinger taps: two finger for middle button and three finger for right button events. (Needs hardware support. Not all models implement this feature.)* Run-time configuration using shared memory. This means you can change parameter settings without restarting the X server (see synclient(1)).* It also provides a daemon to disable touchpad while typing at the keyboard and thus avoid unwanted mouse movements (see syndaemon(1)).

Provided this works fine for you as well then I have been looking for the root cause in the wrong place, then the root cause are not the repository servers. In this case we may need look for the root cause in the configuration used by apt, aptitude, Synaptic, mintUpdate. - Basically it is the same set of configurations files for each of these 4 programmes.

In case, however, browsing the given addresses causes problems on your machine, then we may have to investigate a networking problem.

the new error messaeg from today is: [...]

Hm, to me the posted messages look more like normal descriptions of some software packages, rather than like error messages.

Thank your Karlchen for your support. But I think I give up. I copy pasted the adresses that you suggested in a browser, and the results were very different. Sometime a Homepage pops up. In other case a kind of online file browser. I didn't understand what this was or where to click . An sorry I don understand anything from your 2 paragraph.

I thought or I hoped the problem would be sinmple and could get a solution within minutes. But it seems like something is somehow bad, although the Update process NEVER showed any problem in the past-

I give up and will backup every data and reinstall the NEW Mint version. Thanks anyway for your help

Re-installing the whole operating system and any additional software from the scratch just because mintUpdate does not currently work properly is like buying a new car because one of the 4 tires is defective.

Being unable to query the software repositories can have a number of different reasons. As there was no clear hint in the beginning as to what the reason might be I had to start going through potential causes one at a time.

What has been ruled out seems to be a general network problem. You have been able to contact all addresses with the help of your browser. That the displayed webpages look different is irrelevant as long as you did not receive any "Error 404".What has been ruled out, too, is a general problem affecting packages.linuxmint.com only. On your system mintUpdate seems to be unable to contact any software repository. As you can contact all the given addresses in your browser, the root cause must be inside the configuration used by mintUpdate.

Re-installing the OS and all software because the mintUpdate configuration needs to be corrected is, as stated in the beginning, overkill. - It is your decision of course, not mine.

Assuming that you have not re-installed yet, here is a simple question:Are you sitting behind any kind of proxy server through which you connect to the internet?

Case 1: No, you are directly connected to the internet through a DSL router, no proxy involved

I have the same problem with Linux Mint 13 Xfce_64. Has anyone informed the Linux Mint team?

About which problem?

There is no general mintUpdate programme malfunction. Else I would be complaining, too, and the forum would be full of identical error reports.Horninho and you may see similar symptoms.But that does not even necessarily mean that the root cause in both cases is the same.

Could you, please, open a terminal, run the following commands and post the screen output here:

At the first view the update process worked after installing the new system. Then I noted by clicking on the "more information" sign while Mintupdate is counting the packages, that some are sucessfully loaded , other not. This is iexactly the same problem as yesterday with Mint 12 .

Your "apt-get" commandline could not lock the folder /var/lib/dpkg for exclusive access by itself.Very likely this was a temporary problem.This can happen e.g. in cases, where+ a scheduled anacron job performs its daily "apt-get update" in the background+ you happen to launch the commandline roundabout the same timeBoth "apt-get" commands will try to lock the folder /var/lib/dpkg, but only the first one can.The second one will display the error message.